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Friday, March 1, 2013

Yesterday's big story was the release of Bob Woodward's email communication with Gene Sperling, the top White House advisor who allegedly threatened Woodward if he continued to challenge the administration on the sequester. It turns out that there's plenty of room of debate on the nature of the "threat," but the real story isn't this or that statement about "you will regret this," but the fanatic response of the administration's defenders among the mainstream press corps. It's like a palace guard, and is truly bizarre. I won't link epic asshole John Cook at Gawker, but that's his clown Photoshop, via Memeorandum. But here's Excitable Andy, FWIW, "Bob Woodward, Demonstrable Liar." And see Michael Stickings' perfect encapsulation of partisan hackery in his attack on Woodward's alleged partisan hackery, "The shameless hackery of Bob Woodward."